Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 2 | When the appointed hour approached and we could see the visitors massing outside the glass doors at the end of the ward , waiting for opening-time , I would bury myself in a book to hide my pink eyes ; but they would none the less be drawn irresistibly to watch the passage of each visitor along the aisle while I thought babyishly , " Somebody might think to come . " |
| 3 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 4 | But a solicitous critic ( Amis has had his share , for all the faces he makes ) could perhaps be counted on to demonstrate that the novelist is sorry that Patrick is sexist . |
| 5 | Drafted into the final eleven when Hooper was ruled out on the morning of the match with a hairline fracture of the finger sustained in the nets , the 24-year old Adams would soon be called on to intervene on his team 's behalf with the bat . |
| 6 | Further opt-out votes for other schools may soon be brought forward to delay the plans more . |
| 7 | In terms of the flexible lattice model , one can imagine the polymer and liquid lattices expanding at different rates until a temperature is reached at which the highly expanded liquid lattice can no longer be distorted sufficiently to accommodate the less expanded polymer lattice and form a solution , i.e. the loss in entropy during the distortion becomes so large and unfavourable that phase separation ( LCST ) takes place . |
| 8 | • If you feel tired when it is time to get up — indeed , you might just be getting off to sleep ! — do not stay in bed , but get up . |
| 9 | Our crew 's wives would already be heading there to make offerings on behalf of their husbands . |
| 10 | The rubbish stuck to the bottom of the wax , and could easily be scraped off to leave the scented fawny cake clean and pure . |
| 11 | Yet , it has been consistently used as a straw model which could easily be knocked down to deny the existence of centralized power centres in Japan . |
| 12 | As Laumann and House suggest , they can usually be depended on to adopt design-languages distinguishing themselves from those who have not yet arrived . |
| 13 | Discovery is not available at the earlier stages in which the plaintiff may still be deciding how to formulate his claim , or whom to sue ; that would be to countenance ‘ fishing expeditions ’ . |
| 14 | Imported will still be arriving though to keep supplies at a reasonable level . |
| 15 | ‘ I just wish clients could always be relied on to behave likewise . ’ |
| 16 | " Auntie Eve " could always be relied on to take an interest in their studies , or come up with something exciting such as a picnic or a day in the bush when they were home from boarding school . |
| 17 | It is an aspect of performance practice where several cogent arguments can always be trotted out to avoid considering the hard evidence . |
| 18 | It should always be set up to give maximum resolution . |
| 19 | At first glance , you may wonder how the history of a single event could possibly be spun out to fill a 255-page epic , but this is far from a specialist lap-by-lap potted report of each race . |
| 20 | ‘ But of course — my wife says that we anthropologists are like a housewife faced with the remains of yesterday 's stew and wondering whether it can possibly be eked out to make another meal . ’ |
| 21 | Consequently , even if a non-member country may possibly be entitled not to recognise a flag granted in a manner contrary to the Geneva Convention , it can do so only in so far as there is no ‘ genuine link , ’ regardless as to its nature , between the vessel and the state whose flag it is flying . |
| 22 | The vast majority of decisions within large corporate organisations are not made by the board or even by managers that board members could reasonably be expected personally to supervise . |
| 23 | It is a technique which may also be developed further to incorporate ‘ Natural Aurilism ’ yet does not ignore traditional and worthwhile methods . |
| 24 | This line of thought might also be applied rewardingly to explain one striking feature of divorce statistics . |
| 25 | A plan must also be drawn up to ensure that parts are made in the right order for assembly . |
| 26 | They may also be set up to carry international traffic , or for the use of particular organisations . |
| 27 | An arbitration commission could also be set up to deal with disputes between private investors and individual countries . |
| 28 | Third , conjunctive relations do not just reflect relations between external phenomena , but may also be set up to reflect relations which are internal to the text or communicative situation . |
| 29 | Ad hoc committees may also be set up to investigate specific subjects . |
| 30 | Both the border and the single motifs can also be used upside-down to give a solid edge at the bottom and an irregular edge at the top . |